Textile
Item number 2970/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number 2970/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Malawian chitenga cloth, commemorating Malawian independence. The repeating pattern shows a banner at top and bottom saying “BEST OF LUCK”, images of the first president Hastings Banda with the words “OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT”, a rooster, and the rising sun behind the outline of Malawi with the words “6th July 1960” and “REPUBLIC OF MALAWI”.
Chitenge cloth, traditionally worn like a sarong or used as a carrying cloth for a baby.
Commemorates Malawian independence and the dawn of the new republic. Malawi became a fully independent member of the British Commonwealth on 6 July 1964. In 1966 Malawi adopted a republican constitution and elected the first president, Hastings Banda.
Collected by the donor in the town of Limbe, in the Blantyre district, in 1966.
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Chitenge cloth, traditionally worn like a sarong or used as a carrying cloth for a baby.
Commemorates Malawian independence and the dawn of the new republic. Malawi became a fully independent member of the British Commonwealth on 6 July 1964. In 1966 Malawi adopted a republican constitution and elected the first president, Hastings Banda.
Malawian chitenga cloth, commemorating Malawian independence. The repeating pattern shows a banner at top and bottom saying “BEST OF LUCK”, images of the first president Hastings Banda with the words “OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT”, a rooster, and the rising sun behind the outline of Malawi with the words “6th July 1960” and “REPUBLIC OF MALAWI”.
Collected by the donor in the town of Limbe, in the Blantyre district, in 1966.
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